For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who – one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.
CARSON MCCULLERSThere is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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Love is the main generator of all good writing… Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
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I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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